To celebrate Cinco de Mayo and the cultures at Woodbury Elementary on Tuesday, a group of Mexican folk dancers gave students a performance. They performed three dances - El Son de la Negra, which originates from Jalisco and features vibrant colored, flowing dresses; Nahuatl, featuring ...
Editor’s note: In the years following the Revolutionary War, the United States stood as an unfinished nation. Victory had secured independence, formalized by the Treaty of Paris, but it had not secured stability. The young republic was burdened by war debt, constrained under the Articles of ...
Located at 909 Summit St. just east of the Iowa Veterans Home, the National Guard Armory in Marshalltown is home to the 1168th Transportation Company and is part of a larger network of facilities supporting the Guard across the state. On Monday, the Armory hosted a lunch and learn event with ...
A Des Moines man with a lengthy criminal history of similar offenses has been taken into custody on a total of five charges related to the burglary of Hellberg’s Jewelers on April 4, according to court records. Douglas Allen Baker, 54, turned himself in at the Marshall County Jail on ...
The Marshalltown Community School District Board of Education approved a pair of motions related to Miller Middle School during Monday night’s regular meeting — one for architectural services for “owner provided scope work” as part of the Reimagine Miller bond project and the other for ...
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of several articles reporting on Marshall County residents of the mid to late 1800s whose names are posted on rural avenue road signs. Last names — and other names — were mandated by the E-911 county system. They were approved unanimously ...
